MetroPCS Said to be Frontrunner for AT&T-T-Mobile Assests

Pedestrians pass a MetroPCS Communications Inc. store in San Francisco, California. MetroPCS had 9.1 million wireless subscribers at the end of June, compared with more than 100 million for Verizon Wireless, the country’s largest operator. AT&T reported today that it had 100.7 million subscribers at the end of September. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg